There was once upon a time when marriage was the in-thing. Not only the in-thing, but the must-do-thing. Everyone HAD to get married. Those who weren't married were either thought of as jinxed, or just plain weird. Men so much so to look responsible, women as a way of performing their 'womanly' duties (or sumthing like that).
Well, of late, the pressure has really gone down (to the relief of very many, me included). At least now parents cannot come out of the blue to start on "biological clock ticking" stories, or "how would you look in society" or strange stories like those.
Which leads to the all-important question - Should I marry? Really. Must I marry? So what if I don't? Is there any specific consequence to singlehood? What now, isn't my freedom too precious? I don't have to worry about two, must I? I can pay rent whenever, however; I can visit and be visited without anyone being too particularly concerned; singlehood is really freeing and breath-taking. The options in singlehood are way more than those in marriage.
Now that marriage is becoming less and less compulsory, it's really becoming easier to sink into singlehood. Inasmuch as I believe marriage will not necessarily get extinct, it has a tough battle to fight with singlehood.
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